Tag: language
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Inner City Oldtime
Our own tongue throat stranger And failing to nourish will or may perish We pause, wishing to answer betters in Irish Cannot know a lost language Vanishes, we answer in English Less than swill of which our Liffey consists. What is Irishness What is native wit? Slack jaws guffawing Slenting houses built from haunted bricks…
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Talk French
When we’re talking consignment, big business seeking alignment We parrot like we’re in Paris, which the Seine cuts in half He says a name I cut him off, he says it again I cut the cost Costcutter how I cut costs, sanguinary suds coursing, with my draw-blood boxcutter Did a course in how to become…
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Non-stop Spinning Top
Got more endings than return of the king My rhymes exceed in radiance your bling I have more plants than Swamp Thing I have more keys than janitor’s keyrings I know a girl whose name should be Kettering Amount of Ket she gets in K makes you sway, room starts spin Like 103.8, always been…
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Hondo City Law
More Lawgivers than Big Meg badge wearers give me In my perp face Around my place More jaw givers than lizards lounging near Pharaoh’s livery Crank up the dial like Mean Machine It runs the rim of my scale from scowl to smile When you crash I go Dingodile Leave your baby I go dingo…
Alchemisland 